MPAA Rating: PG13
Director: Howard Deutch
Genres: Comedy Drama
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The 1987 National Football League players' strike inspired this sports-themed comedy. The Washington Sentinels are one of the strongest teams in pro football -- until contract negotiations break down and the Sentinels go on strike. Determined to play the team's schedule, owner Edward O'Neil (Jack_Warden) recruits a ragtag band of scab players, to be headed up and whipped into shape by the retired veteran coach Jimmy McGinty (Gene_Hackman). At the top of the recruitment list is quarterback Shane Falco (Keanu_Reeves), a promising athlete until a catastrophic defeat in the Sugar Bowl dashed his confidence. Joining Falco on the team are Clifford Franklin (Orlando_Jones), a receiver who can't catch the ball; Nigel Gruff (Rhys_Ifans), a chain-smoking Welsh soccer player; Bateman (Jon_Favreau), a former cop with anger management problems; Fumiko (Ace_Yonamine), a sumo wrestler new to football; and Wilkinson (Michael_Jace), a convict on parole to the Sentinels. Can McGinty mold his new squad of misfits and no-hopers (who truly love the game) into a winning team? Brooke_Langton plays Annabelle, head of the Sentinels' cheerleading squad (who has to contend with replacements of her own), and football commentators John_Madden and Pat_Summerall appear as themselves. Mark Deming, Rovi

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